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Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marquess of Ferrara 1441-1450

Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marquess of Ferrara 1441-1450

Antonio di Puccio Pisano, called Pisanello

Artist
Antonio di Puccio Pisano, called Pisanello
(Italian, ca. 1394 - 1455)
Title
Leonello d'Este (1407-1450), Marquess of Ferrara 1441-1450
Date
designed late 1442-early 1443; contemporaneous cast
Medium
Bronze
Dimensions
diam: 68 mm overall
Credit
Gift of Vernon and Sandra Hall
Accession No.
1976.96
Classification
Medals
Geography
Italy

Related

Platt collection; after 1947, purchased by Vernon Hall (Madison, WI); 17 October 1976, gifted by Vernon and Sandra Hall (Madison, WI) to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Hill, George Francis. "A Corpus of Italian Medals of the Renaissance Before Cellini." London: British Museum, 1930. pl. 5; no. 28
  • Hall, Vernon. "Catalogue of the Vernon Hall Collection of European Medals." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1978. no.13
  • Armand, Alfred. "Les médailleurs italiens des quinzième et seizième siècles." 2nd ed. 3 vols. Paris: E. Plon et Cie, 1883-1887. I: p. 4, I: no. 9
  • Chazen Museum of Art. "European Medals in the Chazen Museum of Art: Highlights from the Vernon Hall Collection and Later Acquisitions." Madison: Chazen Museum of Art, 2014. pp. 26-27, 144, cat. no. 3

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